Professional Development Project
The Professional Development Project (PDP) offers students a unique opportunity to participate in cutting-edge academic research and acquire valuable and transferable skills.
Our MEng students undertake a Professional Development Project in the first semester of their final taught year. The PDP can be done in one of three ways:
- As a technical project at a company, this differs from the placement year in that students will work on a single project and write a report assessed as part of their degree. Placement students, on the other hand, often undertake several projects.
- As an individual research project carried out at º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ under the supervision of an academic.
- As an individual research project carried out at a partner university overseas.
Overseas Professional Development Project
We have a number of exchange agreements with overseas universities both in European countries and further afield, which enable our students to undertake their projects overseas and experience life in a different culture.
We have particularly close links with universities in France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Belgium, and outside the EU in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Students are supervised locally on their projects by an academic member of staff at the University.
